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TEN RETAINED FOR LEE WADE, BOYLSTON FINALS

FREDERICK C. PACKARD, JR. '20 SUPERVISES CONTEST

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Ten men were selected on Saturday to be the final contenders for the Lee Wade and Boylston Prizes for Elocution, which will be held Wednesday under the supervision of Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking.

The winners of Saturday's competition are: William T. Dean, Jr. '37, who will give Nicholas Murray Butler's "The Isolated Life"; Robert Dunn '37, giving "A Song of Unending Sorrow," translated from the Chinese by Witter Bynner; Paul Killiam, Jr. '37, who will give an excerpt from Maurice Baring's "Essay on Poetry and Moods of the Public"; Henry V. Poor '36, who will give "The Hound of Heaven," by Francis Thompson; Shepherd Robinson '36, who will give excerpts from James Bryant Conant's 1934 Baccalaureate Sermon; Robert A. Robinson '35, who will give excerpts from Charles Evans Hughes' "Tribute to Oliver Wendell Holmes on his Ninetieth Birthday"; A. Gilman Sullivan '36, who will give Robert Emmet's last speech at his trial before his death; Arthur Szathmary '37, giving a selection from Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Tristram"; Alexander N. Vardack '35, who will give Victor Hugo's "Last Day of a Condemned Man"; and Roy W. Winsauer '36, who will give Mercutio's speech on Queen Mab from "Romeo and Juliet."

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